The Women in the World London Summit will highlight a new Generation Girl platform — in exclusive partnership with Dove — that will amplify the authentic voices of young women leaders and showcase role models for girls.

Women in the World London is generously sponsored by Dove, Google, MasterCard andToyota. We would also like to thank our partners, including Plan UK and War Child.

We read the headlines in the news, but we seldom get to hear these individual stories, and the Women in the World summit does that–we give a spotlight to issues that mainstream media doesn’t typically like to touch.

An interview with Germany’s charismatic, first-ever woman Federal Minister of Defence, on Germany’s complicated role in global security, as well as the complexities of her own life as the mother of seven children.

Leymah Gbowee

An interview with the Nobel Peace Laureate, who led the revolt by the women of Liberia against the despot Charles Taylor, about her protest march across the Korean DMZ.

Suffragette

Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Sarah Gavron are interviewed by Historian Simon Schama on their powerful new film and the birth of the women’s movement.

Yeonmi Park

A twenty-one-year old defector from North Korea, on her harrowing escape, first into the nightmare of human trafficking in China, followed by a grueling trek to freedom across the Gobi Desert.